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01-08-2012, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by psychoslice
Caged birds live longer and happier in most cases.
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Happier?
If one were to leave the cage door open, allowing the bird to make it's own choice, would it stay in the cage or fly free????
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All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.
http://holy-lance.blogspot.com
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01-08-2012, 08:57 AM
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I don't agree with caged birds. Birds should be soaring free through boundless skies, not imprisoned in a cage.
As for pet animals. That the animal should be treated with love and kindness is a given. As for the coming together of two species, that can only be a good thing in my opinion. Through contact with human love and affection, the animal attains individuality and thus survival, which furthers the advancement of its soul and its group soul.
And it is beneficial for the human soul too. Anatole France famously said, "Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
I always like to spin it around, until one has been loved by an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened....
Love, be the source human or animal, transforms like nothing else.
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All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.
http://holy-lance.blogspot.com
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01-08-2012, 08:59 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Australia
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Originally Posted by knightofalbion
Happier?
If one were to leave the cage door open, allowing the bird to make it's own choice, would it stay in the cage or fly free????
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If you left the gate open to a pool area, would a child go through and maybe even drown ?.
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A belief system is nothing but poison to your capacity to understand. Good words are used to hide ugly things. – Osho
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01-08-2012, 09:09 AM
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Hmmm :)) This is getting good... What about other things kept in enclosed areas? I'm ruling cats and dogs out because they can run away if they wanted to (unless you cage them like they do in my country). What about fishes, salamanders, newts, turtles? ♥
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01-08-2012, 09:16 AM
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Location: Australia
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Iw ould agree with psychoslice ....
My own parrot...had his cage...and the door was open.......
he wold love to roam around in and outside our home....but would come back to cage...when he wanted to use his swing inside cage.......or when he wanted to sleep at night.....
he lived with us as he was one of us....
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01-08-2012, 09:32 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by psychoslice
If you left the gate open to a pool area, would a child go through and maybe even drown ?.
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haha nice one.
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01-08-2012, 11:58 AM
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If you love something, Set it free... If it comes back, it's yours, If it doesn't, it never was yours....
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When it's raining look for rainbows and when it's dark look for stars.
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01-08-2012, 02:59 PM
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Im with Psycho on this. Its all about the bird and our love for it and how we treat it. Animals grow spiritually by having a connection to humans who treat them with love. We are after all their next destination on the journey of life
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01-08-2012, 06:21 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by psychoslice
If you left the gate open to a pool area, would a child go through and maybe even drown ?.
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Not quite the same thing is it.
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All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.
http://holy-lance.blogspot.com
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01-08-2012, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by lightworkerAu
If you love something, Set it free... If it comes back, it's yours, If it doesn't, it never was yours....
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Beautifully put.
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All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.
http://holy-lance.blogspot.com
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